By PETER BRANNEN • JULY 29, 2017 It has been called the “Great Dying.” The planet’s most profound catastrophe struck 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, killing 90 percent of life in the ocean and 75 percent on land. The fossil record nearly goes...

Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. By David Wallace-Wells In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit...

Population surge means there is only a 10% chance of avoiding a collapse of world civilisation, says professor Juliette Jowit The population of Earth has doubled since Paul Ehrlich first warned the world that there were too many humans. Three and a half billion people...

Even with storage, new renewables beat existing coal. By David Roberts@drvoxdavid@vox.com Jan 16, 2018, 2:00pm EST This month, energy nerds are very excited about a utility bid solicitation. Wait, hear me out. It really is exciting! Usually, when we talk about...

The technology exists to combat climate change – what will it take to get our leaders to act? By Bill McKibben If we don’t win very quickly on climate change, then we will never win. That’s the core truth about global warming. It’s what makes it...

By PETER BRANNEN, JULY 29, 2017 It has been called the “Great Dying.” The planet’s most profound catastrophe struck 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, killing 90 percent of life in the ocean and 75 percent on land. The fossil record nearly goes...

The suburbanization of America marches on. That movement includes millennials, who, as it turns out, are not a monolithic generation of suburb-hating city dwellers. Most of that generation represents a powerful global trend. They may like the city, but they love the...

Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone As recently as 2013, renewables provided only about 23% of Portugal’s electricity. By 2015 that figure had risen to 48%. Photograph: Pete Titmuss/Alamy Stock Photo Portugal kept its lights on with...

Article by Ben Ho, Photo by Doug Chayka TO many skeptics, particularly on the right, the spectacular failure of the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra in 2011, after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, demonstrated the industry’s...